Case study · Lunch Actually Group
Lunch Actually
Built web, mobile, internal, and real-time systems supporting expansion across multiple countries.
My contribution
Full-stack Software Engineer
Outcome
Designed and implemented a custom real-time chat system for web and mobile products.
- Period
- 2021—2022
- Product
- Matchmaking platform
- Platforms
- Web · Android · iOS · Internal tools
- Team
- <5 in engineering · 80+ employees
In this story
Supporting customers, matchmakers, and internal operations
I developed and maintained web, mobile, and internal applications using React Native and Node.js, with additional contributions to Java and Python services.
Building a custom real-time chat system
I designed and implemented the product's real-time chat system. The work covered client behavior, server events, conversation state, reconnection, and failure handling for interrupted mobile connections.
Supporting expansion across multiple countries
I helped adapt the product for multiple countries while keeping shared behavior maintainable as market-specific requirements increased.